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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NineteenDoornails@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[-] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

It's a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

[-] happy_saw@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I assume its Embrace, extend, and extinguish. Its something Microsoft is know for and this worried me when they started to "Embrace" Linux. However, I don't believe big tech can do much in terms of polluting open source and the fediverse.

I dont follow this much but I can see that these companies are investing into what they think the future could look like.

Might just be me...

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's what they want you to think. (not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not)

Even if that's true, once they become a part of the ecosystem, they will start looking for ways to dominate it. That's just the nature of for-profit corporations.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Check out how XMPP was killed

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think you need to read too much into it.

If Meta concludes that federated platforms or activitypub may one day start to eat their lunch, then the clear and obvious first step to any strategy is to have some sort of presence in the fediverse.

Honestly that's as far as you need to go for the moment. Grab some market share and then avail yourself of opportunities as they arise.

Perhaps it will be EEE, perhaps something else.